Yeah, I've only seen a handful of shows, and I was kinda skeptical, but then I watched her softly TALK a 3 year old out of a "nuclear meltdown" with a few quiet words and an arm around his shoulders. She was getting ready to take a handful of older kids to the grocery store, and this little boy thought he was going, but then realized the littler ones weren't and started to fall apart. I think his big brother (who was like 16 or 17?) tried to calm him, and then she saw it was past that point and went to him and just bent down and put her arm around him, gave him her full attention, and spoke quietly to him for a minute or two, and then he was completely okay and calm. It was pretty impressive.

There are some things about the way they do things that I find odd personally and don't care much for, and things that seem like a fine way to to things, but all that aside, I do think it would take a special combination of people to make that life work so seemingly well, for all the tough reasons we talked about above and more!

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